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originally intended.

The executive of the Caul-
feild Property Owners Asso-
ciation is. fighting..a battle
many: ‘feel it has foie lost,

“hundreds” of ©
dollars.” : me

But -the group has . the
unanimous support of its
membership, and: its aims
are shared by Mayor Derrick
’ Humphreys and many, if not
all, members of West
Vancouver council.

And” a. ‘bylaw. is in the
works: “that” many feel will
help: ‘the: ‘group ‘realize some
of itsaims..

About.. "50 Caulfeitd
residents "gathered Wed-
nesday in Caulfeild
elementary school for the
annual meeting of the
association, The meeting
centred . on the Caulfeild
Plateau development.

Originally intended to
provide innovative and
creative cluster housing, the
association feels the entire’
project, which now involves
seven ‘developers, has

‘millions * “of

strayed a long way from its
original aims.

‘The. group .is, primarily. _
concerned ‘about | oversize -
houses, being built on small
illegally-

lots, roads being

_contract,.

-the association said.

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A group - of West . ‘Vancouver residents has ‘ )
vowed ‘to ‘continue its: fight to make sure the.
‘Caulfeild Plateau is developed i in the way that was

built through green space,

trees being illegally chopped ¢

‘down and the general abuse

of the original land use:

WW. ere. promised, that

innovation © and ‘ecological”
. conservation were going. to

be.; the. keynotes,” ‘Sue
Kershaw, the’ president of

“It's not happening up
there.”

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She said that: the first
developer built large single
family homes instead of the
small cluster units that were
planned, and this set. the
pattern for later developers.

She outlined the history of
the association’s fight and
said that at first “nobody
seemed concerned.”

Meetings with tho
developers and West Van
council were not successful,

she said, because debate |

became tied up with specific
infringements of the original
Jand use contract. ‘

“It was the breach of ‘the
intent of the contract. that

owas concerning us mainly,”

she said

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But last month West Van
council voted to look into —

-Council also introduced a

bylaw to restrict the size of

to: a portion of lot

_ size, throughout the

municipality. .

This bylaw goes to public
hearing May 19 and if passed
it is felt it will apply to
_ Projects in the Caulfeild™
- area. This would bring to an
_ end the oversize houses on

lots. ° -
Bi t some association
members feel they are

' fighting a losing battle.

“We're voicing the same
concerns that we voiced
when the contract was
Originally drafted,” one
member said.

After being shown slides
of houses and roads slashed
through green space one

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though we've lost our bat-
tle.”

“I think we started off on _

very poor footing,” Kershaw
admits, but she still feels
optimistic.

The other association.
members obviously agreed
as they unanimously voted to.
support the grdiip in. its.
efforts and also to. support

the new floor area ratio.

‘ bylaw. -

And Mayor Humphreys a

who was present at the
meeting also made it clear |
that he personally supported ©
their stand to bring the.
project back in line with the
intent of the original con-
tract.

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But the illegal ‘logging
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portion of the mountainside
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